Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-29
THE COAL FAMINE.
All Business on New York's Great
Wharyes Completely ParaIyzed by
the Knights OF Labor.
But Few Vessels Bile to Leave Their Moor
ings-The Strikers Firm in Their
Demands and Confident.
THE SITUATION AT JERSEY CITY.

| JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. 2S.-Fifiy
Italians employed to ill the places OF
striking loDgshoremen at the Red Star
lines dock In Jersey City were visited by
walking delegates this afternoon and the
result of the conference wGs a strike by
the Italians. They were subsequently adj
ministered the oath of the knights of
Labor and left the city with the delegates.
! The steamship Sealdam of the Rotterdam
| line, eucou, tered so much difficulty in
receiving her cargo at the pier, that she
Yves towed into midstream and was loaded
with 100 bushels of grain, the bslance of
| her cargo, from elevators. The coal
companies at Bergenport brought 200
Italians from New York this morning to
handle coal. The strikers became so
threatening that the executive committee
of the knights sppoi ted men to prevent
an encounter At the Bremen and Ham
burg Steamship piers in Hoboken there is
no trouble among the lougshoremen, as
| the companies employ only non-union
men.
BUSINESS PARALYZED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S-Business on the
river front is almost completely paralyzed,
and with the exception of small amount
of freight being moved by green hands on
one or two piers, very little work has
been done on the docks of the principal
steamship companies since the strike of
lOngshoremen commenced. The strikers
are confident they will succeed and gain
their demands. The next move will be
to get the pilots IN the ocean steamers
service to come out. The pilots are Or
gained and should an order 90 out for
them TO quit work the strikers hope to
stop all transatlantic steamers from sail
ing out of pert. This the union men claim
will compel the steamship companies to
come 10 terms. Only one steamer, the
Brittanic of the White Star line, could
sail this morning. The Others are either
unable to load coal or their carSOes. Sew
ersl have announced, however, that they
will be able TO get away to- morrow.
everything was quiet a. ii! Of the docks
all the morning, and the strikers, as
general thing, are staying ST home. No
riCtGus outbreaks ante pated.
TIE STRIKERS JuBILANT.
New YORK, Jan 2S.-rhe union men
are receiving reports from ali points that
the strike is progressing favOrably to the
ass ocia ion. A leader said this morning:
Gas fast as the companies get green
hands together we shall organize them
and bring them into the union. Men or
two docks will to-day join the union. One
i gang OF Italians. \ conference Of
the union was held this morning. We
new demand 40 cents per hour Tor day
work and 60 cents for night work"
NO ONE At WORK.
JERSEY Cry, N. j., Jan. 2S.-The long
shoremen in Jersey City and Hoboken
sre still out. At the Rotterdam docks
the steamer W. A. Scholton was unlosded
by the crew. 4 patty Of Italians
were brought over from New
York this morning and taken to the com
panY's pier at the foot Of York street IN
der police escort. They became fright
eued ard refused to work. The Re- Star
line steamer Pennland is being loaded by
Italian laborers and will be resdy to sail
tomorrow. At the Wilson < Thlngval-
Ia docks in Hoboken no men are work
ing. The helpers of the United States
weighers this morning struck tor an in
crease of pay. They have been receiving
50 cents per hour and demand 40 cents.
The situation of the coal strike remains
unchanged